ORD. L. CALAMARIA. 
ORD. LI. GRAMINA. 
Grapes, grass-like plants. 
a 
SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM. COMMON SUGAR CANE. 
Saccharum non purificatum, & purificatum. Pharm. Lond. 
SYNONYMA. Arundo saccharifera. Bauh. Pin. p. 18: Park. 
_ Theat. p. 1210. Arundo saccharina. Gerard. Emac. p. 38. 
Raii Hist. p. 1278. Conf. Sloane’s Jamaica, tom. i. p. 108. t. 66. 
- Rumph. Herb. Amb. tom. 5. p. ¥86. t. 74. f. ¥.  Hughes’s 
Barbadoes, p. 244. t. 23. f. ¥.  Browne’s Jamaien, p. 129. 
Cazaud i in Phil. Trans. vol. 69. P. ¥. t. 3. 
Class Triandria, Ord. Digynia. Lin. Gen. Plant, 73. 
Ess. Gen. Ch, Cal. 9-valvis, em involucratus. Cor, 2-valvis. 
Hort. Kew. 
Sp. Ch. S. floribus paniculatis, foliis planis. 
THE root is perennial, knotted, and fibrous: the stem is simple, 
or undivided, jointed, smooth, about two inches in diameter, and 
rises from eight to eighteen feet in height: the leaves are long, 
simple, sword-shaped, and embrace the stem: the flowers are small, 
and produced in a terminal loose panicle: the calyx is a es of 
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